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bush, the credit card bill has arrived in your mailbox. it's called austerity. last decade, we had two wars off the books while cutting taxes for the wealthy. there are ways to fix our deficit, but don't hurt the poor and middle class a carbon tax creating capital gains and income. apparently we don't really hate
bush, the credit card bill has arrived in your mailbox. it's called austerity. last decade, we had two wars off the books while cutting taxes for the wealthy. there are ways to fix our deficit, but don't hurt the poor and middle class a carbon tax creating capital gains and income. apparently we don't really hate
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let's play bush iraq and terror, that one just if you have any questions, it's bush, iraq and terror. jacki: terr. hal: terr. >> one of the hardest parts of my job is to connect iraq to the war on terror. i believe it. osama bin laden believes it, but the american people have got to understand that a defeat in iraq if this government there fails. hal: that's one of the hardest jobs pushing the prop began at a. the american people don't believe it, because they're getting too much information. i believe it. why would he say sadaam hussein believes it? i don't know what that means. >> sadaam has sane believes it, that he has connections to the al-qaeda. trying to buy a piece of cake. jacki: using a dial up internet connection. hal: he apparently got a fax of some uranium. we didn't get our facts straight. and of course, who could forget mission accomplished, a lovely bush mission accomplished, there, tony. we really should put numbers on these, because there are so many of them. we should do a countdown. jacki: oh, that would be good. hal: yeah. jacki: is that the mission accomplished a
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ten years after the war in iraq began a veteran sends a letter to george bush and dick cheney bashing them for what he calls a needless war this vet is in a hospice and dying coming up we'll speak with thomas young about his letter that has gone viral. and big brother is keeping an eye on you while drones are most often used for the by the u.s. for warfare overseas more and more police departments here at home are using them to spy on u.s. citizens this week lawmakers heard concerns about this growing practice we'll tell you about that hearing in just a bit. and over five million people have been stopped and frisked by the n.y.p.d. officers and the vast majority of those people were minorities but thanks to several whistleblowers we are now learning more about this controversial program and the ways police officers are implementing it all look at stop and frisk just ahead. it's friday march twenty second four pm in washington d.c. i'm megan lopez and you're watching. well we spent a lot of time this week taking a critical look at the iraq war the misconceptions that led us into the co
ten years after the war in iraq began a veteran sends a letter to george bush and dick cheney bashing them for what he calls a needless war this vet is in a hospice and dying coming up we'll speak with thomas young about his letter that has gone viral. and big brother is keeping an eye on you while drones are most often used for the by the u.s. for warfare overseas more and more police departments here at home are using them to spy on u.s. citizens this week lawmakers heard concerns about this...
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ten years after the war in iraq began a veteran sends a letter to george bush and dick cheney bashing them for the needless war that is now in the hospital and hospice and dying coming up we'll speak with thomas young about his letter that has gone viral and big brother is keeping an eye on you while drones are used most often by the u.s. for warfare overseas more and more police departments here at home are using them to spy on citizens this week lawmakers heard concerns about the growing practice we'll tell you about that hearing in just a bit. plus five million people have been stopped and frisked by n.y.p.d. police officers the vast majority of them were minorities but thanks to some whistleblowers we now know more about this controversial program and the police officers that and how they are missing implementing it will look at the stop and frisk program in just a bit. it's friday march twenty second eight pm in washington d.c. i'm meghan lopez and you're watching. we've spent a lot of time this week talking about the iraq war and taking a critical look at it the misconceptions t
ten years after the war in iraq began a veteran sends a letter to george bush and dick cheney bashing them for the needless war that is now in the hospital and hospice and dying coming up we'll speak with thomas young about his letter that has gone viral and big brother is keeping an eye on you while drones are used most often by the u.s. for warfare overseas more and more police departments here at home are using them to spy on citizens this week lawmakers heard concerns about the growing...
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republicans like george bush and mitt romney get 5% or less. i got 20%-something mississippi from the blacks in mississippi, and i would like to think partially because i had a good record, but also because i tried. if we talk about me getting 27% of the hispanic vote after saying effectively we want your grandmother to self-support, i want to know who that 27% of the hispanic voters who voted for him. the truth of the matter is, not only is it easier to vote for somebody if you like them, it is easier to vote for somebody if you think they like you. this is a real -- this became more than about latinos, became about color. when asian-americans were both for democrats, then that says to me at all those chinese-americans who came here as republicans, because they were fleeing communism, all those vietnamese-americans, all those indian doctors and businessmen who were showing off -- who were taxpayers and they voted for a democrat, a left-wing democrat, by the way, a far shift to the left compared to bill clinton -- that has to be in a lot of vot
republicans like george bush and mitt romney get 5% or less. i got 20%-something mississippi from the blacks in mississippi, and i would like to think partially because i had a good record, but also because i tried. if we talk about me getting 27% of the hispanic vote after saying effectively we want your grandmother to self-support, i want to know who that 27% of the hispanic voters who voted for him. the truth of the matter is, not only is it easier to vote for somebody if you like them, it...
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i knew that whether i was working for bush in 2004. also one of the things we need to take to account and the report does is republican parties in five of the last six elections has not won the majority of the votes or a plurality of the vote. there were mistakes, but there is a trend here that you talked about that has to be taken into account. sorry, i just wanted to jump in. >> i appreciate that you wanted to comment on that when your former boss is -- >> loyalty is an important thing. >> loyalty is. let's open it up. let's see who has a question. >> i am from southern west virginia, and i was around to remember the southern strategy for nixon. i remember willie horton. i remember all the things the republican party was doing to divide during those years. i also understood that you were dividing that, that you were not against people in color. in this last election, blacks went 98%? 95 percent of 94%. hispanics went 71%. sian-americans went 75%. it is not hard to figure out what is going on. i have 10 children and five are below vot
i knew that whether i was working for bush in 2004. also one of the things we need to take to account and the report does is republican parties in five of the last six elections has not won the majority of the votes or a plurality of the vote. there were mistakes, but there is a trend here that you talked about that has to be taken into account. sorry, i just wanted to jump in. >> i appreciate that you wanted to comment on that when your former boss is -- >> loyalty is an important...
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offense so this isn't golf you don't get a do over the resolution articles or impeachment of george bush president of the united states. go to consider chat us and sign the impeachment petition the former congressman joined us earlier in our studio as we reflect upon the past decade and i asked him looking back on the past ten years what is on his mind and more than what goes from my mind i can feel this in my heart you know i'm heartsick over the loss of our troops over the deaths of perhaps as many as a million innocent iraqis the destruction of that country the destruction of our own priorities here at home the rising debt borrowing money to wage a war the city has been a nightmare and frankly those who made the decisions to take us there have not yet been held accountable yeah and i want to bring this up yesterday i spoke to former alaska senator mike gravel and here's what he said well our entire institutions the media the congress the white house all failed the american people now i know that you from the very beginning were outspoken about this war and i want to ask should have th
offense so this isn't golf you don't get a do over the resolution articles or impeachment of george bush president of the united states. go to consider chat us and sign the impeachment petition the former congressman joined us earlier in our studio as we reflect upon the past decade and i asked him looking back on the past ten years what is on his mind and more than what goes from my mind i can feel this in my heart you know i'm heartsick over the loss of our troops over the deaths of perhaps...
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soldiers hundreds of thousands of iraqis and estimated to cost trillions of dollars the bush administration told the public iraq had weapons of mass destruction turns out that wasn't the case but from the beginning there were a few voices against the waging a war in iraq among them former congressman dennis q senate if you can recall he called for the impeachment of president george bush and dick cheney liars are weapons of mass destruction lies are also an impeachable offense this is in golf you don't get a do over the resolution articles or impeachment of george bush president of the united states. go to consent to chat us and sign the impeachment petition for the former congressman joins us now in our studio as we reflect on the past decade much of his son it's great to have you here so you have consistently been a vocal critic of the iraq war and looking back on the past ten years what's going through your mind. more that would goes from my mind i can feel this in my heart you know i'm heartsick over. the loss of our troops over the debts of perhaps as many as a million innocent iraqis
soldiers hundreds of thousands of iraqis and estimated to cost trillions of dollars the bush administration told the public iraq had weapons of mass destruction turns out that wasn't the case but from the beginning there were a few voices against the waging a war in iraq among them former congressman dennis q senate if you can recall he called for the impeachment of president george bush and dick cheney liars are weapons of mass destruction lies are also an impeachable offense this is in golf...
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who are george bush and michael dukakis? which george bush? george bush sr.? yes. that's right. presidentiaters for $600, please. jeff. who are ronald reagan and walter mondale?al d. presidential debaters for $800. lauren. who are bush, clinton, and perot? which bush? uh, bush i. yes. presidential debaters for $1,000. jeff. who are george w. bush and al gore? yes.
who are george bush and michael dukakis? which george bush? george bush sr.? yes. that's right. presidentiaters for $600, please. jeff. who are ronald reagan and walter mondale?al d. presidential debaters for $800. lauren. who are bush, clinton, and perot? which bush? uh, bush i. yes. presidential debaters for $1,000. jeff. who are george w. bush and al gore? yes.
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soldiers hundreds of thousands of iraqis estimated dead and estimated to cost trillions of dollars the bush administration told the public iraq had weapons of mass destruction turns out that wasn't the case but from the very beginning there were a few voices against waging a war in iraq among them former congressman dennis q senator if you can recall he called for the impeachment of president george bush and dick cheney. lies are weapons of mass destruction lies are also an impeachable offense this isn't golf you don't get a do over but resolution articles of impeachment of george bush president of the united states go to the senate sat us and sign the impeachment petition the former congressman joined us earlier and our studio as he reflected upon the past decade and i asked him looking back on the past ten years what's been going through his mind more than what goes from my mind i can feel the same my heart you know i'm heartsick over the loss of our troops over the deaths of perhaps as many as a million innocent iraqis the destruction of that country the destruction of our own priorities
soldiers hundreds of thousands of iraqis estimated dead and estimated to cost trillions of dollars the bush administration told the public iraq had weapons of mass destruction turns out that wasn't the case but from the very beginning there were a few voices against waging a war in iraq among them former congressman dennis q senator if you can recall he called for the impeachment of president george bush and dick cheney. lies are weapons of mass destruction lies are also an impeachable offense...
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. >> he would go into, like, monosyllabic grunts and sounds doing george bush, and somehow, it worked. >> jimmy: yeah, exactly. >> i don't know how it worked, but it did. >> jimmy: he didn't quite sound like george bush. he made his own -- [ talking over each other ] gosh, he's unbelievably -- >> it was fantastic. >> jimmy: i want to -- "the croods" is very funny as well. i want to talk about that when we come back. >> sure. >> jimmy: more with nicolas cage when we get back, guys. nicolas cage! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ [ male announcer ] ah, would you look at that? a couple of retired coaches putting aside their college hoops differences to split an app and 2 entrees for just 20 bucks. look at them bonding over the "jazzed-up" flavor of those new bourbon street entrees. just when i think people can't overcome their petty differences. yes! in your face, knight! [ male announcer ] nevermind. you've got anger issues. that's not how you throw a chair. [ male announcer ] only the best make our famous 2 for $20 menu, like the new creamy cajun steak & shrimp and cajun shrimp pasta. a grea
. >> he would go into, like, monosyllabic grunts and sounds doing george bush, and somehow, it worked. >> jimmy: yeah, exactly. >> i don't know how it worked, but it did. >> jimmy: he didn't quite sound like george bush. he made his own -- [ talking over each other ] gosh, he's unbelievably -- >> it was fantastic. >> jimmy: i want to -- "the croods" is very funny as well. i want to talk about that when we come back. >> sure. >> jimmy:...
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we listen to the bugle car from the bushes father and son. after the gulf war, the afghan war and the iraq war, are we ready for war with iran and syria? spent billions of rebuilding in iraq, baltimore, detroit, they could use the big money we're spending on countries that take our cash even as they tell us to leave. finally, see how she runs, hillary clinton's message on marriage equality fits her m.o. precisely, a scripted, polished dramatic video is just how she announced last time. looks like she is in. hi, i'm chris matthews, welcome to the show. with us today, the "washington post" david ignatius and kathleen parker. helene cooper and michael crowley. first up, what does barack obama know what we don't know pledging to use american power against iran and getting more deeply involved in syria? the american mood when it comes to using force feels like 1915, the end of vietnam. after that war, reluctance to commit power abroad was called vietnam syndrome. then came desert storm in 1991 and the first george bush told us that the lightning v
we listen to the bugle car from the bushes father and son. after the gulf war, the afghan war and the iraq war, are we ready for war with iran and syria? spent billions of rebuilding in iraq, baltimore, detroit, they could use the big money we're spending on countries that take our cash even as they tell us to leave. finally, see how she runs, hillary clinton's message on marriage equality fits her m.o. precisely, a scripted, polished dramatic video is just how she announced last time. looks...
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i said bush would be reelected. pat ran. bush was not reelected. to this day, pat buchanan still sits in the chair. >> right. >> and as long as we are on that. zuckerman, you know, most people don't know, he is in real estate. >> well, yeah, he also owned "u.s. news" and "the new york daily news", so he is in journalism, too. >> so what do you think of? you work for "the weekly standard." you started "the weekly standard." tell us that story. >> well, i worked, i worked for "the new republic" magazine before that. i left "the baltimore sun" in 1985 then on that debate had something to do with it. and so i joined, i joined the new republic which had a famous white house column every week. it was written years ago by john osborne, a brilliant column, and when i came, i took it over who went to "newsweek" to be their bureau chief. that did not work out well. >> who owned that? >> marty paris who lived in cambridge, massachusetts, taught at harvard, and was one of these people who was moving jewish intellectuals who was becoming more conservative, part
i said bush would be reelected. pat ran. bush was not reelected. to this day, pat buchanan still sits in the chair. >> right. >> and as long as we are on that. zuckerman, you know, most people don't know, he is in real estate. >> well, yeah, he also owned "u.s. news" and "the new york daily news", so he is in journalism, too. >> so what do you think of? you work for "the weekly standard." you started "the weekly standard." tell us...
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bush? >> greg: they admitted to doing that. >> andrea: we did it as a topic on the show. >> bob: we did? you know there are many topics i miss. freddie i think the conclusion here -- >> greg: i think the conclusion here is whether or not the actor was made to look like obama or not. obama should be impeached. dabs >> dana: just for -- >> greg: because he looks like satan. that is conclusion. north dakota is a record-breaker. 12 million people viewing it. i'm a daily reader of the bible and i don't thin find it good. the music too loud. it does not follow biblical tradition. >> andrea: it's hard to do the bible. mel gibson did it -- >> dana: we have to wait to find out, wait to find out about this until bill o'reilly next book comes out. "killing jesus" and find out everything you wonder about the bible in that book. >> bob: he can answer this. after 2 ,500 years. all right. one more thing is up next. ♪ ♪ today is gonna be an important day for us. you ready? we wanna be our brother's kee
bush? >> greg: they admitted to doing that. >> andrea: we did it as a topic on the show. >> bob: we did? you know there are many topics i miss. freddie i think the conclusion here -- >> greg: i think the conclusion here is whether or not the actor was made to look like obama or not. obama should be impeached. dabs >> dana: just for -- >> greg: because he looks like satan. that is conclusion. north dakota is a record-breaker. 12 million people viewing it. i'm...
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did the bush administration mislead the u.s. public, yes, 54%. >> that's why this is a great country. the majority of americans got it together. the majority of americans are never listened to. we'll talk about guns in a few minutes, i guess. >> we'll take a break. >> no one is being listened to. >> this brings me to guns. there is so much going on not the least of which harry reid saying forget about the assault weapons ban. we'll talk about it after the break. i'm sure you are as angry as i am. >> what a weinie. >>> dianne has worked so hard in this. she understands going back to the day she found a mayor dead in his office killed how strongly she feels about that. i know that. but right now her amendment using the most optimistic numbers has less than 40 votes. that's not 60. >> senator harry reid spreading his stunning decision to drop the assault weapons ban proposed by senator dianne feinstein. i was incensed when i heard this. hearing harry reid say, well, i can't get enough votes so we'll put it on the back burner. this
did the bush administration mislead the u.s. public, yes, 54%. >> that's why this is a great country. the majority of americans got it together. the majority of americans are never listened to. we'll talk about guns in a few minutes, i guess. >> we'll take a break. >> no one is being listened to. >> this brings me to guns. there is so much going on not the least of which harry reid saying forget about the assault weapons ban. we'll talk about it after the break. i'm sure...
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>> president bush soured chalab> pretty early on, and i think-- it wasn't just chalabi. there was a whole collection of -- >> buter everybody thought he ws playing one game, which was for himself. >> that's probably the case. he was very sort of suave individual who i think told a lot of the americans what theyin wanted to hear.ri >> rose: let's go to what happened in terms of the surge and look back over these years. the surge comes. it's recommended. many people are saying-- for george bush-- toay make that decision at that time when most people said it would not work, both inside and outside ofns government was a courageous decision. do you share that? >> it was a courageous decision but it was a belated decision. and what had happened was due to all these mistakes we talkedhe about, first of all, there were sectarian passions in iraq that became unleashed once saddam was gone. and the war between-- the civil war between the sunnis and the shi'a were really soaring out of control. i was in iraq fair lot of that period, and it was a horribled period-- bodies in the str
>> president bush soured chalab> pretty early on, and i think-- it wasn't just chalabi. there was a whole collection of -- >> buter everybody thought he ws playing one game, which was for himself. >> that's probably the case. he was very sort of suave individual who i think told a lot of the americans what theyin wanted to hear.ri >> rose: let's go to what happened in terms of the surge and look back over these years. the surge comes. it's recommended. many people are...
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bush is remembered for. now more than a decade later the republican party seems to have revived the strategy that got him elected in the first place, this idea of compassionate conservatism, a kinder, less mean-seeming republican party. the question is why would it work now when it did not end up working for george w. bush except to get him elected once, and how can you earn an image change like that without changing any of your policies that earned you the image you now want to change. joining us is john brabender. mr. brabender, it's great to have you here. >> i'm glad to be here, and every i am i'm here, i'm increasingly convinced you are not going to switch and become a republican. >> i will keep trying to persuade you of that. let me ask you if you think my analysis is biased by the fact that i am not a republican. i look at sort of the republican prognosis for what went wrong, that autopsy that they unveiled today, and i see that as trying to rebrand at compassionate conservatism again? do you see that
bush is remembered for. now more than a decade later the republican party seems to have revived the strategy that got him elected in the first place, this idea of compassionate conservatism, a kinder, less mean-seeming republican party. the question is why would it work now when it did not end up working for george w. bush except to get him elected once, and how can you earn an image change like that without changing any of your policies that earned you the image you now want to change. joining...
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i think of bush and cheney and the lies. i think about how many lives they ruined. they killed a lot of people but they ruined a lot of lives. >> john: negin farsad? >> i think about how we went into a country and we had no plan for nation building, literally no idea what to do with a country after we went in there and destroyed destroyed--systematically destroyed everything about it. that is the thing that justice gets me. >> john: that's because oh george bush didn't know shiite. and hari kondabolu? >> undeclared wars right now we're sending drones out of the country. that's the new way to do it. >> john: mm-hmm. >> i have to say, girls only, i said boys but women in the military. >> john: the female homeless veteran population is disturbing and shocking but you don't hear about it on the news so much because it doesn't feel good. that brings me to tonight's f-bomb. as we approach the ten anniversary of the invasion of iraq it's natural to think about the bush administration, but let's not think about the people who made it possible, the washington, d.c. inside th
i think of bush and cheney and the lies. i think about how many lives they ruined. they killed a lot of people but they ruined a lot of lives. >> john: negin farsad? >> i think about how we went into a country and we had no plan for nation building, literally no idea what to do with a country after we went in there and destroyed destroyed--systematically destroyed everything about it. that is the thing that justice gets me. >> john: that's because oh george bush didn't know...
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and george bush and dick cheney and condoleezza rice are still around. in terms of how we get right with this as a country, the accountability can't just be personal about the decision makers. it has to be about telling the story honestly about what happened so that they, like nixon, don't get away with it in the long run the way they got away with it in the short run, so we tell the story correctly and honestly, so it's not dismissed as a conspiracy theory by generations hence by americans who can't believe something this evil would happen in our country. it did. we need to teach it that way and learn it that way if we want to have any hope of it not happening again. in american politics there were plenty of democrats who went with the iraq war ten years ago, who believed it, and made it more convincing by virtue of their democratic endorsement. on the democratic side that at least as since become a source of shame. it's a strike against you in democratic politics. it's part of the reason we have a president named president obama who was not part of tha
and george bush and dick cheney and condoleezza rice are still around. in terms of how we get right with this as a country, the accountability can't just be personal about the decision makers. it has to be about telling the story honestly about what happened so that they, like nixon, don't get away with it in the long run the way they got away with it in the short run, so we tell the story correctly and honestly, so it's not dismissed as a conspiracy theory by generations hence by americans who...
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president bush's paintings? have you seen them? >> i have one. i have one of the original first 43s. he painted my wife and our dogs. and it's -- he's pretty good. i called him when barney died and he painted a picture of barney, which i thought was really, you know, clearly from the heart. >> clearly, already aware of the future value of these works on canvas, the former president signs all of his paintings with a 43, paging christie's. for more on this, let's turn to jerry saltz, senior art critic for "new york" magazine. jerry, a pleasure to have you on this most important topic. >> great to be here. >> but let's talk about it. you actually have written on the subject of bush and his artistic sensibilities and seem to be somewhat of a supporter or a fan or someone that thinks there's maybe something perhaps deeper going on there. tell us about that. >> well, art shocks you. your own tastes can surprise you. for eight years, i looked at george bush. i did not vote for him. and he sort of gave me the heebie-jee
president bush's paintings? have you seen them? >> i have one. i have one of the original first 43s. he painted my wife and our dogs. and it's -- he's pretty good. i called him when barney died and he painted a picture of barney, which i thought was really, you know, clearly from the heart. >> clearly, already aware of the future value of these works on canvas, the former president signs all of his paintings with a 43, paging christie's. for more on this, let's turn to jerry saltz,...
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that is why we greatly lower taxes under bush. you have the lowest growth rate and any and under any -- other administration except under recessions. we had 7 million jobs created in the bush. 22 million after clinton after raise taxes. we are proposing at the door but what we are proposing in our budget, under the lime budget, the total revenue would be about 19% of gdp. under the reagan administration, it was 23.5% of gdp. the congressional budget, all the way up to 21.8%. but in his job creation is not high taxes. if people do not have money, they're not spending it to buy products. the people are not being hired to make them, market them, etc.. people were laid off, mortgages for clothes. trillion dollars below where should they -- shou ld be. investing it. why? -- doe they did not say not see customers for the new products. if anybody is saving money because they do not, have not which is what has happened in a [indiscernible] it destroys the economy. only government can, in -- can privatethin hiring companies to fill pothole
that is why we greatly lower taxes under bush. you have the lowest growth rate and any and under any -- other administration except under recessions. we had 7 million jobs created in the bush. 22 million after clinton after raise taxes. we are proposing at the door but what we are proposing in our budget, under the lime budget, the total revenue would be about 19% of gdp. under the reagan administration, it was 23.5% of gdp. the congressional budget, all the way up to 21.8%. but in his job...
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why did bush want to do it? >> i mean, there is the famous line when he went to the fund-raiser in texas and says this is the guy who tried to kill my dad. that that i think was part of it. david summed it up very well. just one additional point in terms of the atmospherics surrounding 9/11. remember, bush did almost nothing about the warnings pre-9/11 from the intelligence community, and i think that if -- >> you mean al qaeda to attack in the united states? >> yeah. there were repeated warnings from the cia. >> richard clark was talking about it. >> they pretty much brushed aside. they were not focused on a threat from al qaeda, then 9/11 happened. if there was guilt about anything that was a factor in here would be we didn't do what we should have done prior to 9/11 so now we're going to take every threat super seriously. >> the odd thing is, one reason they didn't focus on al qaeda before 9/11 is because they were consumed with iraq. they kept dismissing al qaeda and saying iraq is the real threat. then 9/11
why did bush want to do it? >> i mean, there is the famous line when he went to the fund-raiser in texas and says this is the guy who tried to kill my dad. that that i think was part of it. david summed it up very well. just one additional point in terms of the atmospherics surrounding 9/11. remember, bush did almost nothing about the warnings pre-9/11 from the intelligence community, and i think that if -- >> you mean al qaeda to attack in the united states? >> yeah. there...
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in financial terms how does the bush administration original estimate compare with the final bill? >> well, the administration was only counting on a few months of occupation and a very short war. their 30 to $50 billion to 50 to $60 billion or up to 100 to $200 billion were very wrong. the number that you keep talking about is quite low too. if you would like i'll explain why that is. >> michael: yes, please do. >> okay, so the number you're giving, $800 billion is the dod that is meant gone spending special appropriations for the war and the state department appropriations for iraq. but you have to add to that the other costs of the war that we've already paid. for example the va has already begun treating veterans who have returned from the war. they get medical and disability. there is a growth in homeland security spending that occurs because if you remember the alerts went up when we went to war, and in some cases stayed up for some time. there was increase need for homeland security. then there were interest costs that we already accrued for the money borrowed to pay for the
in financial terms how does the bush administration original estimate compare with the final bill? >> well, the administration was only counting on a few months of occupation and a very short war. their 30 to $50 billion to 50 to $60 billion or up to 100 to $200 billion were very wrong. the number that you keep talking about is quite low too. if you would like i'll explain why that is. >> michael: yes, please do. >> okay, so the number you're giving, $800 billion is the dod...
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especially as you have folks like jeb bush and chris christie. trying to move the country to more moderate and progressive in the lower-case "p" sense of the word. >> in covering ron paul, who of course rand paul is going to inherit the energy and enthusiasm from ron paul, you saw the biggest crowds, the most diverse crowds and the youngest crowds. that's what rand paul is going to capitalize on. should he run and it looks like he will run. i think over the last months and weeks you've seen obviously a split between the establishment and the tea party folks. rubio can't decide which one he is. rand paul, however, is very, i think solid and comfortable with his brand and who he is. it's part of ron paul, he's modified a little bit in terms of foreign affairs and international affairs. but i think he is a comer and folks in the republican party i talk to really like him. they think he's the person who can really intellectualize a tea party in the way that ron paul couldn't. he was a little meandering on the stump. they like what they see in terms o
especially as you have folks like jeb bush and chris christie. trying to move the country to more moderate and progressive in the lower-case "p" sense of the word. >> in covering ron paul, who of course rand paul is going to inherit the energy and enthusiasm from ron paul, you saw the biggest crowds, the most diverse crowds and the youngest crowds. that's what rand paul is going to capitalize on. should he run and it looks like he will run. i think over the last months and weeks...
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>> i think again it isn't just that florida voters don't like jeb bush or marco rubio. many republicans and many moderates like them. the key to hillary clinton is not only that she's so well-known not only is she coming off a successful run as secretary of state has the credentials but she puts together this odd constituencies. it's democrats that sure as heck like her but also women in great numbers across the board and as i said earlier the republican women. i think the secret in the sauce is that hillary clinton at any state, florida in this case, in any state is going to--the republican women are going to look at her vote for her in 30% to 40% and i think she's nearly unstoppable if she chooses to run for the white house. >> michael: that's really an amazing thing, to think that 30% to 40% of republican women would vote for hillary clinton. if you think back to the mid 90s, not a chance that would have happened. but if republicans have any hope of making up ground in florida a savvy immigration platform will be key. maybe that's why yesterday at a heritage foundati
>> i think again it isn't just that florida voters don't like jeb bush or marco rubio. many republicans and many moderates like them. the key to hillary clinton is not only that she's so well-known not only is she coming off a successful run as secretary of state has the credentials but she puts together this odd constituencies. it's democrats that sure as heck like her but also women in great numbers across the board and as i said earlier the republican women. i think the secret in the...
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it was george bush at his best. it's a more than any president -- this is an honorable thing, what i just did about bush. >> that program would have been wonderful if he had raised the money himself. it is not the government's role to pay for medicine to foreign governments. what is the one thing that obama has done that i applaud, and i have to say his second inaugural, just two months ago, the president walked down the length of pennsylvania avenue chewing nicorette. i respect that what appeared to be in the world, living in the world, where all of your buddies who worship you like jesus are telling you the most of the thing you can do, not commit abortion, but used a tobacco product -- that is the worst thing you could ever do. for this guy to flaunt his addiction in public was courageous, compelling, and an inspiration to all of us. go, barack obama. >> that is the end of round two. now for the final round, the lightning round. we will play a word association game. i speak a word and each fighter responds with t
it was george bush at his best. it's a more than any president -- this is an honorable thing, what i just did about bush. >> that program would have been wonderful if he had raised the money himself. it is not the government's role to pay for medicine to foreign governments. what is the one thing that obama has done that i applaud, and i have to say his second inaugural, just two months ago, the president walked down the length of pennsylvania avenue chewing nicorette. i respect that what...
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thank god that george bush is our president. and thank god, and thank god that dick cheney, a man with his experience and his knowledge and his strength and his background is our vice president. >> now, the guy whose arm he grabbed, bernard carrick, police chief, he is in jail tonight. what you just heard from rudy giuliani, that's the kind of statement that could make all future endorsements worthless. but there's at least one company that doesn't think so. >> looking forward to your tax refund? so are identity thieves. they can steal your refund. happens to thousands of people every year. you have to be proactive when it comes to identity theft, especially during tax season. >> your identity needs protection. no one does it better than lifelock. >> identity thieves steal from everyone. you have to protect yourself. i protect myself with lifelock. >> now, remember when rudy giuliani was marco rubio? remember when he was the savior of the republican party? remember when he was going to be swept into the presidency in 2008 by lin
thank god that george bush is our president. and thank god, and thank god that dick cheney, a man with his experience and his knowledge and his strength and his background is our vice president. >> now, the guy whose arm he grabbed, bernard carrick, police chief, he is in jail tonight. what you just heard from rudy giuliani, that's the kind of statement that could make all future endorsements worthless. but there's at least one company that doesn't think so. >> looking forward to...
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bush master made the same weapon and called it something else. feinstein was trying to get at having a conversation about military-style weapons and the republican party is owned by the nra, and now we see the democrats are literally intimidated into submission. they are more concerned about their jobs than they are about the 87 americans that die each and every day from largely preventable gun violence. >> john: indeed you're right. it's worth pointing out that the 94 assault weapons ban was endorsed by reagan and the difference being by harry reid they weren't trying to get elected by anything. are we being too hard on him? should he have forced a vote on the assaults weapons ban as the president requested during the state of the union dress? >> we have loft the political momentum and opportunity around sandy hook not to speak of it disrespectfully and exploitively obama move forward with the executive orders 20-plus. we should have seized those moments. if this was about re-election and several states that could go to blue to red on the senate
bush master made the same weapon and called it something else. feinstein was trying to get at having a conversation about military-style weapons and the republican party is owned by the nra, and now we see the democrats are literally intimidated into submission. they are more concerned about their jobs than they are about the 87 americans that die each and every day from largely preventable gun violence. >> john: indeed you're right. it's worth pointing out that the 94 assault weapons ban...
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we listen to the bugle car from the bushes father and son. after the gulf war, the afghan war and the iraq war, are we ready for war with iran and syria? spent billions of rebuilding in iraq, baltimore, detroit, they could use the big money we're spending on countries that take our cash even as they tell us to leave. finally, see how she runs, hillary clinton's message on marriage equality fits her m.o. precisely, a scripted, polished dramatic video is just how she announced last time. looks like she is in. hi, i'm chris matthews, welcome to the show. with us today, the "washington post" david ignatius and kathleen parker. helene cooper and michael crowley. first up, what does barack obama know what we don't know pledging to use american power against iran and getting more deeply involved in syria? the american mood when it comes to using force feels like 1915, the end of vietnam. after that war, reluctance to commit power abroad was called vietnam syndrome. then came desert storm in 1991 and the first george bush told us that the lightning v
we listen to the bugle car from the bushes father and son. after the gulf war, the afghan war and the iraq war, are we ready for war with iran and syria? spent billions of rebuilding in iraq, baltimore, detroit, they could use the big money we're spending on countries that take our cash even as they tell us to leave. finally, see how she runs, hillary clinton's message on marriage equality fits her m.o. precisely, a scripted, polished dramatic video is just how she announced last time. looks...
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in these parts of the world this is down from the last year of george bush's administration. .. with friends or countries you don't necessarily before. i think benghazi is a moment that will be associated with the secretary. i think some questions remain unanswered england questions the cia and the pentagon and white house and the political debate house to some extent blurred the picture a little bit. i think that in the big picture with information that we have now i don't think it changes her legacy that much better will be used against her if she decides to run for president and she reenters the political light that jury briefly the big picture is that these things, these tragedies unfortunately happened when you're doing diplomacy in these places or a journalist in these places. america lost one of its great embassadors but under president ronald reagan's watch it is the first thing people associate with the name. she was free elective accept of course for the relatives of those who died in beirut to it's hard to say how it will affect her legacy that it continues to be asso
in these parts of the world this is down from the last year of george bush's administration. .. with friends or countries you don't necessarily before. i think benghazi is a moment that will be associated with the secretary. i think some questions remain unanswered england questions the cia and the pentagon and white house and the political debate house to some extent blurred the picture a little bit. i think that in the big picture with information that we have now i don't think it changes her...
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even if barack obama or bush wanted to, obviously the secret service would not let them get out of the limo and interfere with a mugging or run to a building. it's a different kind of job. it has a symbolic power. in the end we're not surprised when you see a mayor out at the site of an accident or pulling somebody out of a burning buildings, ultimately the mayor sees himself, herself, first of all, as a neighborhood. someone who has to solve problems. this is reflected by the way in the statistics. we know that the trust in public authorities in american throughout the western world and much of the world has plummeted. congress has 12% in some poll, the presidency, not this president, the 30 and 0th. this president is considered wildly popular because he has 52% support right now. the supreme court numbers have gone down. mayors and city counsel are still in the '70s and '80s. some say it's the hallow effect. you are exempt from the general critique. neighbors retain trust in democracy that has been largely lost elsewhere, which means also our relationship to our town and city and cit
even if barack obama or bush wanted to, obviously the secret service would not let them get out of the limo and interfere with a mugging or run to a building. it's a different kind of job. it has a symbolic power. in the end we're not surprised when you see a mayor out at the site of an accident or pulling somebody out of a burning buildings, ultimately the mayor sees himself, herself, first of all, as a neighborhood. someone who has to solve problems. this is reflected by the way in the...
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it lowers it even beyond where george bush had lowered it yes. >> and a $5 trillion hole in the budget too they say when this is all done. >> bill: yeah but he makes up for that by getting rid of obamacare and medicare. >> caller: right it's $200,000 tax cut. >> bill: exactly. but russell it is a total sham and they know that and who are they kidding right? >> well, we got rid of our nut cases our last election in illinois. and they vow to get rid of kurt and this tea party guy from down state in the next election. illinois has had enough of the republicans. >> bill: well, i will hope that -- pardon me -- that that would be true with a lot of these tea party people, because that's who is driving the train here in the united states congress. russell good to hear from you. out in las vegas, nevada. lee joining us. hey, lee, good morning. >> caller: good morning, bill. how many times, bill are we going to hear about this -- i call him eddie munster budget? it's so pathetic that why don't they just give it to the rich on a silver plate -- >> bill: well, they do. yeah. >> caller: i know, bu
it lowers it even beyond where george bush had lowered it yes. >> and a $5 trillion hole in the budget too they say when this is all done. >> bill: yeah but he makes up for that by getting rid of obamacare and medicare. >> caller: right it's $200,000 tax cut. >> bill: exactly. but russell it is a total sham and they know that and who are they kidding right? >> well, we got rid of our nut cases our last election in illinois. and they vow to get rid of kurt and this...
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republicans like george bush and mitt romney get 5% or less. i got 20 something mississippi from the blacks in mississippi, and i would like to think partially because i had a good record, but also because i tried. getting 27%bout me of the hispanic vote after saying effectively we want your grandmother to self-support, i want to know who that 27% of the hispanic voters who voted for him. [laughter] the truth of the matter is, not only is it easier to vote for somebody if you like them, it is easier to vote for somebody if you think they like you. this is a real -- this became more than about latinos. became about color. when a haitian-americans -- americans both for democrats, then that says to me at all those chinese-americans who came here as republicans, because they were fleeing communism, all those vietnam- americans, all those indian doctors and businessmen who were showing off -- who were taxpayers and they voted for a democrat, a left-wing democrat, by the way, a far shift to the left compared to bill clinton -- in a lot ofbe voters'mi
republicans like george bush and mitt romney get 5% or less. i got 20 something mississippi from the blacks in mississippi, and i would like to think partially because i had a good record, but also because i tried. getting 27%bout me of the hispanic vote after saying effectively we want your grandmother to self-support, i want to know who that 27% of the hispanic voters who voted for him. [laughter] the truth of the matter is, not only is it easier to vote for somebody if you like them, it is...
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bush. he made the bad decision to go in, but he stayed there on the ground. and he was aided fantastically by his general on the ground, general petraeus. whatever happened later in general petraeus' career doesn't change that. and you can count the tens of thousands of iraqis alive today because the country didn't keep zooming off towards civil war the way it was heading when petraeus came in. >> you know, richard engel a couple of years ago, i asked him what was going on in iraq and asked him what they thought about george w. bush. and he said not much. not much. but they would put statues of david petraeus up on every square if they had a chance. >> well, richard haas, we have this from daniel dunby. who writes in part, turkey is the economic winner of the iraq war. the americans won the war, the iranians won the peace and the turks won the contracts. with iraq's kurdish region seeking to reduce the dependence on baghdad, the relationship with turkey may soon move to another level. tensi
bush. he made the bad decision to go in, but he stayed there on the ground. and he was aided fantastically by his general on the ground, general petraeus. whatever happened later in general petraeus' career doesn't change that. and you can count the tens of thousands of iraqis alive today because the country didn't keep zooming off towards civil war the way it was heading when petraeus came in. >> you know, richard engel a couple of years ago, i asked him what was going on in iraq and...
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they had to admit for 12 years they had been lying about who benefited from the bush tax cuts. but we will take a -- 85% of progress is progress. face taxwe have is we rates and a tax system and the federal government, instead of being temporary, having to be re-upped every two or five years, it is permanent. so if president obama and the democrats want to raise taxes on any american, they have to look it -- look them in the eye and pass it through a democrat senate, and a republican house would have to agree. republican house is not going to allow them to raise taxes on the american people, and that is how you force a conversation about reform. the reason why there has been no reform in the obama years -- no entitlement reform, no welfare reform -- is they just raise taxes and spend more money. but when you stop them from having the ability to raise taxes, then they have to reform government to decide how to allocate resources and how to prioritize. that is the beginning of getting reform. you are quite right that republicans need to do better at working through with everybody
they had to admit for 12 years they had been lying about who benefited from the bush tax cuts. but we will take a -- 85% of progress is progress. face taxwe have is we rates and a tax system and the federal government, instead of being temporary, having to be re-upped every two or five years, it is permanent. so if president obama and the democrats want to raise taxes on any american, they have to look it -- look them in the eye and pass it through a democrat senate, and a republican house...
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now he is a total nationalist but he wouldn't have been rubbing elbows back in when when -- george hw bush was running. >> that's right. if this was just a party that had gob through its cyclical ups and downs, and the normal people who were in charge of fixing the party were set out to fix it flip flop, and try to move the party back to the middle. politics -- u.s. politics we have seen it all before. democrats web through the same problem, so they would move the party back they would begin to win independents again but they can't do that when they have fox news in the middle. >> hal: right. >> they also can't reach out to minorities and say we have to explain how our policies help them when they don't. >> hal: right. >> you can't make your policies mean something they don't. >> hal: right. it becomes a linguistic tap dance though. we're just the party of growth and opportunity for 200 of the 400 billionaires in this country. it doesn't apply to you, per se. you don't have the right to live here, but they do. and it's kind of like putting natural on your food even though it contains petro
now he is a total nationalist but he wouldn't have been rubbing elbows back in when when -- george hw bush was running. >> that's right. if this was just a party that had gob through its cyclical ups and downs, and the normal people who were in charge of fixing the party were set out to fix it flip flop, and try to move the party back to the middle. politics -- u.s. politics we have seen it all before. democrats web through the same problem, so they would move the party back they would...
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bush campaigned on and it is abc as much a republican and democratic idea any ways so this idea that somehow, oh they are coming around on immigration. no they are not. they are just going back to a position they had abandoned. >> but if they do any research they would find out that hispanic voters are most concerned about general economic issues, health care, jobs -- >> hal: yeah, but republicans aren't -- so they have to sell it some other way. >> right. they are concerned about immigration but not more concerned about immigration than they were about general economic issues or issues that effect the community, and the fact that the republican party appears to be pandering by -- by stereotyping the community to the point if they get in on this immigration thing, hispanic voters are going to enmass some over to the republican party is what is so small minded about it. >> hal: it is embarrassing because the president comes out specifically and wants to make at it priority. he runs on it. they make a real genuine outreach to the latino community, they -- i mean from sonia sonia sewed
bush campaigned on and it is abc as much a republican and democratic idea any ways so this idea that somehow, oh they are coming around on immigration. no they are not. they are just going back to a position they had abandoned. >> but if they do any research they would find out that hispanic voters are most concerned about general economic issues, health care, jobs -- >> hal: yeah, but republicans aren't -- so they have to sell it some other way. >> right. they are concerned...
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i think jeb bush, mark is right. he fell flat in the hall, but the platform he is laying down, the idea that republican party has to be a party that takes care and cares about the poor is a very smart place to be and, you know, kind of the direction that priebus was talking about. >> if i could distance myself from what ron said and everybody in the greater manhattan area think about cpac. i don't think they are whacko birds. they are my friends. they are my friends and -- >> did he do that? >> yes, because you know what? >> why? >> you were there. >> i was. >> i spoke at cpac and i've spoken at cpac before and, yes, there are elements there. but let me tell you something. i've also been at liberal organizing events where there were some crazy, almost bordering on violent people at some labor organizing event. i'm just speaking for myself. nobody else has to say anything! i just -- i just -- >> can i say one thing? >> yes. i know ron, i'm not singling you out because everybody else says the same thing about them, but
i think jeb bush, mark is right. he fell flat in the hall, but the platform he is laying down, the idea that republican party has to be a party that takes care and cares about the poor is a very smart place to be and, you know, kind of the direction that priebus was talking about. >> if i could distance myself from what ron said and everybody in the greater manhattan area think about cpac. i don't think they are whacko birds. they are my friends. they are my friends and -- >> did he...
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the last three clinton budgets and the one that george bush inherited from bill clinton. in each case taxes as a percentage of the total economy were over 20%. in this republican fantasy land budgets are balanced with revenues at 19% of the economy, yet meeting the needs of 78 million more seniors and a infrastructure deficit that is growing as america is falling apart. clearly this is not remotely possible if we are going to enjoy anything like our current quality of life. there is a real world intersection of budget saving opportunities with potential areas of agreement. health care reform is one. but not just by shifting the burden to seniors and disabled as the republicans propose in their fantasy budget. my home state of oregon is the middle of an exciting demonstration of how to squeeze out the waste we all know is there and realign incentives. instead of the empty ritual of pretending to repeal obamacare, let's work together to accelerate reform for all americans. if the oregon experiment works, and frankly many of these efeshencies by the way are already achieved
the last three clinton budgets and the one that george bush inherited from bill clinton. in each case taxes as a percentage of the total economy were over 20%. in this republican fantasy land budgets are balanced with revenues at 19% of the economy, yet meeting the needs of 78 million more seniors and a infrastructure deficit that is growing as america is falling apart. clearly this is not remotely possible if we are going to enjoy anything like our current quality of life. there is a real...